Alan Arkin Quotes

I gotta make a living. I make no bones about that. Most actors do. But within that context, I've never not tried to make something as fresh and alive as I possibly could make it.

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• The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Different
  • Working
  • Camera

• Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

  

  Lactantius
  • Men
  • Father
  • Beginning

• Some people believe they chose homosexuality, and some believe they didn't. Who's to say one is wrong? It's not fair to generalize anyone's sexuality or walk of life.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• You look at the NBA: there's all these young kids that are drafted on potential. They go to bad teams, they're in bad locker rooms, and now we got this analytics stuff that doesn't teach kids how to play. We've got these workout coaches that don't teach kids how to play basketball.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Basketball

• A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Same

• Lots of people still don't think of golf as a sport.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • People
  • Think
  • Golf

• The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Work
  • Love
  • Me

• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Courage
  • Loved
  • Strength

• You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Done
  • Success
  • Failure

• I've been a staunch advocate of women's empowerment, and I've worked hard throughout my career to advance the cause. It is heartening to see that gender equality is really becoming more of a reality. There is still much more to be done, and I'm confident that, by working together, we can empower women worldwide.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Women
  • Done
  • Together

• I smoke as much as I want and chew tobacco a good deal of the time. I don't pay any attention to the rules for keeping in physical condition. I think they are a lot of bunk. The less you worry about the effect of tea and coffee on the lining of your stomach, the longer you will live, and the happier you will be.

  

  Zack Wheat
  • Time
  • Good
  • Live

• While it is not always profitable to analogize 'fact' to 'fiction,' La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.

  

  Felix Frankfurter

• Pain is good, I'd say, when it's incidental to Love. In 'I give up my life for my friend' it is my friend, not my death, that matters. And sometimes I needn't give up my life for him, I can live for him, and with him, and the power of the spirit is then equally manifested, I should think.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Communication

• Perl did not get where it is by ignoring psychological factors.

  

  Larry Wall

• L'histoire est un roman dont le peuple est l'auteur.

  

  Alfred de Vigny

• Rosemary’s reputation was known; he would, by obscure logic, become retrospectively a cuckold.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Logic

• I am not discouraged. I really am not. I do not despair for our country. I never do. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency and compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail. And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill: Do not underestimate us Americans.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• How proud upon your quarterdeck you stand,Conductor, Captain of the mighty bus!Like some Columbus you survey the Strand,A calm newcomer in a sea of fuss.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Proud
  • Sea
  • Calm

• Mental fire is what won't burn real sticks; mental water is what won't necessarily (though of course it may) put out even a mentalfire.

  

  William James
  • Real
  • May
  • Sticks

• A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

  

  Louis L'Amour
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped trying to fit the material I was working with into these tidy little short fiction packages.

  

  Susan Choi
  • Writing
  • Short
  • Result

• I gotta make a living. I make no bones about that. Most actors do. But within that context, I've never not tried to make something as fresh and alive as I possibly could make it.

  

  Alan Arkin